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... all from my little home studio in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa!

"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Paul McCartney

This card is my entry in the CAS challenge over at The Outlawz. They asked for the sentiment to be the star of the show, and I used a John Wayne quote, printed onto white cardstock. The rich bronze cardstock was used as a mat, and I added two silver metal brads and a metal stallion charm.

That's the theme of the CAS challenge over at the Outlawz today, and I thought about it, and think that it' people you are comfortable in their own skins, happy to stand apart from a crowd, and those who don't blindly follow the masses.

I belong to a Thursday morning Craft Group and one of our members celebrated her 50th wedding Anniversary last Thursday. I always make a card so that we can all write our own message, and this is the little project I created for Yvonne and John, who were married in 1965

The card consists of four concertina fold outs, and the cover of each has the year of their marriage in pale fold diecuts. The belly band holds them all closed. The the foreground of the pic you will see all the little tags that the ladies wrote their messages on. These were then pasted into the foldouts.

When the belly band is removed :

The very last page of the foldouts then contains the numbers of the current year (2015)